Pro tip for left handed sketchers: flip your reference photo horizontally

I kept messing up the angle of my lines and couldn't figure out why. Turns out my brain was fighting the natural way I hold my pencil. Been flipping pics in my phone before drawing for a week now and my proportions actually look right. Anyone else southpaw notice this?

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milessmith16d agoMost Upvoted

Flipping images was a GAME CHANGER for me too. I do it with EVERYTHING now - faces, landscapes, you name it.

lopez.jana16d ago

Shooting my reference on my phone backwards changed everything for my sketches too.

val94918h ago

Tbh flipping it is the real trick, not shooting it backwards. I tried shooting references backwards a while back and it just made everything look off. Still, glad you found something that works for you though.